Grievousness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grievous \Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See
     {Grief}.]
     1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to
        bear; offensive; harmful.
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              The famine was grievous in the land.  --Gen. xii.
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              The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
                                                    --Gen. xxi.
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     2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated;
        flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20.
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     3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or
        affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- {Griev"ous*ly}, adv. --
        {Griev"ous*ness}, n.
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